Richard Crooks

AI'm falling in love with someone
BMoonbeams

Label: His Master's Voice
Catalogue number: DA1041
Genre: Voice
Condition: New / unplayed
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #2735

Richard Crooks was an American tenor of the 1920s–40s, prominent in both opera and popular song; this His Master's Voice pressing of 'I'm Falling in Love with Someone' and 'Moonbeams' is from the mid-1930s.

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BPreislied

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AUna furtiva Lagrima
B(Ezio Pinza)Largo

Richard Crooks was a celebrated American tenor, known for operatic and concert repertoire. This V-Disc pressing, a non-commercial recording made for US Armed Forces during World War II, carries 'Una furtiva Lagrima' (a famous tenor aria from Donizetti's *L'elisir d'amore*) and 'Largo' (presumably by Handel or another classical composer, with Ezio Pinza perhaps as partner or comparison).AI summary

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